Moderate: uriparser security update

Synopsis

Moderate: uriparser security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for uriparser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Uriparser is a URI parsing library, which is written in C and strictly complies with RFC 3986.

Security Fix(es):

• uriparser: Out-of-bounds write via uriComposeQuery* or uriComposeQueryEx* function (CVE-2018-19198)
  
• uriparser: Integer overflow via uriComposeQuery* or uriComposeQueryEx* function (CVE-2018-19199)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1651946 - CVE-2018-19198 uriparser: Out-of-bounds write via uriComposeQuery* or uriComposeQueryEx* function
• BZ - 1651948 - CVE-2018-19199 uriparser: Integer overflow via uriComposeQuery* or uriComposeQueryEx* function

CVEs

• CVE-2018-19198
• CVE-2018-19199

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index